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Glottal closure and opening instant detection from speech signals

This paper proposes a new procedure to detect Glottal Closure and Opening Instants (GCIs and GOIs) directly from speech waveforms. The procedure is divided into two successive steps. First a mean-based signal is computed, and intervals where speech events are expected to occur are extracted from it. Secondly, at each interval a precise position of the speech event is assigned by locating a disc...

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a. Witness Professor Reyntjens (PW77) asked permission to address the Chamber. First, he advised the Chamber that he had made an error in an answer he had given yesterday and offered further explanations. Second, he advised the Chamber that he had been given documents yesterday by Counsel for Bagosora (Mr. Constant), some of which were stamped “confidential” and which he recognized as being doc...

Area of mouth opening estimation from speech acoustics using blind deconvolution technique

We propose a new method for estimation of area of mouth opening from a video sequence of the speaking person. In a paper published in 2000, Grant and Seitz have reported the different degrees of correlation between acoustic envelopes and visible movements. In our method, we exploit these correlations to establish a mathematical model of a Single-Input Multiple-Output (SIMO) system in which the ...

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TBA. Speaker: Kenneth D. Lukowiak, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Canada Predator detection initiates a fear response that alters memory formation in Lymnaea We study the shortand long-term effects of fear behaviours in our model organism, the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis. Crayfish, a natural predator of the snail release kairomones in the water in which they are housed (i.e....